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Abstract
Brotto and Yule (2016) do a service to the research and clinical communityinterestedinsexualitybyprovidingathoughtfuland systematic review on how best to conceptualize asexuality. Their article adds to other recent reviews and theoretical papers onasexuality(e.g.,Bogaert,2006,2015,2016;Gressgard,2013; Hinderliter, 2013). Brotto and Yules review is important in a number of ways, including helping clinicians to think critically about whether or not the absence of sexual attraction should be diagnosedasasexualdisorder.However,mycommentshereare restricted to how Brotto and Yules article has implications for another important issue: How conceptualizing asexuality helps to better understandor least view differentlysexuality, an issue I have addressed elsewhere in my own work on asexuality (Bogaert, 2012a, 2015).